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Philippa Black
Birth Date:26 November 1941
Fields:Mineralogy and Metamorphic Petrology
Workplaces:University of Auckland
Alma Mater:University of Auckland
Thesis1 Title:Igneous and metamorphic rocks from Tokatoka, Northland
Thesis1 Url:https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/5877
Thesis1 Year:1964
Thesis2 Title:Petrology of the Cuvier and Paritu Plutons and their metamorphic Aureoles
Thesis2 Url:https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/387
Thesis2 Year:1967
Doctoral Students:Bruce Hayward

Philippa Margaret Black (born 26 November 1941) is a New Zealand academic specialising in geology, specifically mineralogy and metamorphic petrology.[1]

Black was born on 26 November 1941 in Hamilton. She is the daughter of Dorothy May and James Corbett Black. She received her education at Taupiri Primary School, St Paul's Catholic School (primary school in Ngāruawāhia), and New Plymouth Girls' High School.[2] She studied at the University of Auckland and earned a MSc and PhD in geology. The title of her 1964 master's thesis was Igneous and metamorphic rocks from Tokatoka, Northland.[3] Her PhD focused on the Tokatea Reef in the hills behind Coromandel township and the title of her doctoral thesis was Petrology of the Cuvier and Paritu Plutons and their metamorphic Aureoles.[4] [5] She later got an MA in History.[6] She was appointed a professor at the University of Auckland in 1986[7] and headed the department for 15 years.[7]

Between 1993 and 1997, Black was president of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the first woman to hold the role.[7] In the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science.[8]

In 2013, after her retirement, she was elected Companion to the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ).[9] In 2017, she was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's 150 women in 150 words, celebrating the contribution of women to knowledge in New Zealand.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Contact our people – The University of Auckland. www.auckland.ac.nz.
  2. Book: Who's Who in New Zealand, 1991 . Lambert . Max . 1991 . 12th . Octopus . Auckland. 9780790001302 . 57.
  3. Black . Philippa . 1964 . Masters thesis . Igneous and metamorphic rocks from Tokatoka, Northland. . ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland . 2292/5877.
  4. Exhibition notes to company The Art of Science, a joint exhibition of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, curated by Rebecca Priestley, touring New Zealand 2011–2013.
  5. Black . Philippa . 1967 . Doctoral thesis . Petrology of the Cuvier and Paritu Plutons and their metamorphic Aureoles . ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland . 2292/387 .
  6. Book: Black, Philippa . Cornishmen and convicts : mining and European settlement of the Diahot, northern New Caledonia (Thesis, MA History) . University of Auckland . 2004 . Auckland . English.
  7. Web site: Philippa Black. Juliet. Kac. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. Taonga. teara.govt.nz.
  8. Web site: Queen's Birthday honours list 1996 . 3 June 1996 . Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet . 27 September 2019.
  9. Web site: Two of the School's Geologists Receive Recognition – The University of Auckland. www.env.auckland.ac.nz.
  10. Web site: Philippa Black CNZM FRSNZ. 10 May 2021. Royal Society Te Apārangi.

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